Governance & Environment
in Western Europe
Politics, Policy & Administration
By Kenneth Hanf & Alf-Inge Jansen
Oct 1998
Pearson Education
ISBN: 0582368200
344 pages
$77.50 Paper originalOUT OF PRINT
Governance and Environment in Western Europe: Politics, Policy and Administration, provides an up-to-date overview of developments in this area focusing on a selection of ten countries in Western Europe and the European Union. The countries examined are: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The range of countries covered - representing as they do different stages of development in environmental policy, different state and institutional traditions - provides an interesting comparative analysis of how different countries confronting similar problems of environmental management have responded politically and (re)organized their administrative systems for implementing these policies.
Contents
Foreword.
Preface.
1. Environmental policy - the outcome of strategic action and institutional characteristics - Kenneth Hanf and Alf-Inge Jansen.
2. Britain: Coming to terms with sustainable development? - Neil Carter and Philip Lowe.
3. Denmark: Consensus seeking and decentralization - Mikael Skou Anderson, Peter Munk Christiansen and Soren Winter.
4. France: Fragmented administration and consensual implementation - Corrine Larrue and Lucien Chagason.
5. Germany: The engine in European environmental policy - Heinrich Pehle and Alf-Inge Jansen.
6. Greece: administrative symbols and policy realities - Calliope Spanou.
7. Italy: Environmental policy in a fragmented state - Rudolf Lewanski.
8. The Netherlands: Joint regulation and sustainable development - Kenneth Hanf and Egbert van der Gronden.
9. Norway: Balancing environmental quality and interest in oil - Alf-Inge Jansen and Per Kristen Mydske.
10. Spain: Environmental policy and public administration. A marriage of convenience officiated by the public? - Nuria Font and Francesc Morata.
11. Sweden: From environmental restoration to ecological modernization - Lennart J. Lundqvist.
12. The European Union: Environmental policy and the prospects for sustainable development - Alan Butt Philip.
13. Environmental challenges and institutional changes. An interpretation of the development of environmental policy in Western Europe - Alf-Inge Jansen, Oddgeir Osland and Kenneth Hanf.
Features
" Written by a team of internationally recognized contributors.
" Includes a separate chapter on EU environmental policy and explores the impact of the EU on policy and structural developments within the ten countries examined.
" Adopts a comparative approach to the study and development of environmental policies, and the strategies to deal with environmental problems, including an analysis of administration, power and authority within each country.
" Presents country studies according to a common analytical framework.
" Examines the links between governance and their environmental policies.
Return to main page of Trans-Atlantic Publications